Well, this story is about how Bruce Lansky came to be a poet. Bruce's mother was a librarian and LOVED poetry! She would always read poems to him . After awhile he decided he wanted to write poems . The year he started writing poems was 1991.

Turn Off the TV!Turn Off the TV!By Bruce Lansky b. 1941

My father gets quite mad at me;my mother gets upset—when they catch me watchingour new television set.

My father yells, “Turn that thing off!”Mom says, “It’s time to study.”I’d rather watch my favorite TV showwith my best buddy.

I sneak down after homeworkand turn the set on low.But when she sees me watching it,my mother yells out, “No!”

Dad says, “If you don’t turn it off,I’ll hang it from a tree!”I rather doubt he’ll do it.‘Cause he watches more than me.

He watches sports all weekend,And weekday evenings too,While munching chips and pretzels-The room looks like a zoo.

So if he ever got the nerveTo hang it from a tree,He’d spend a lot of time up there-Watching it with me.